joined other unofficial maroon communities. In 1798, a slave named Cuffee ran away from a western estate, and established a runaway community which was able to resist attempts by the colonial forces and the official Maroons remaining in Jamaica to subdue them. References Campbell, Mavis C. The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655–1796. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 1990. Craton, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. Winks, Robin. The Blacks in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 1971. Among the early historians to mention the Jamaican Maroons and the Second Maroon War were the following: Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, From Their Origin to the Establishment of their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone. 1803 Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. 1793. (Later editions of Edwards' History, which eventually ran to several volumes, included information about the Second Maroon War.) Specific History of the Colony of Jamaica Jamaican Maroons Slave rebellions in North America Resistance to the British Empire Wars involving Jamaica 1790s in Jamaica 1790s in the British Empire Slavery in Jamaica